net neutrality

Arizona State Restores Access to Change.org after National Outcry

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:03:35 -0500

Full article: Fire Dog Lake
Adam Kissel
Arizona State University has restored access to the petition website Change.org after blocking it due to dubious concerns about "spam" emails coming from the site related to a petition advocating lower tuition costs at the university.

Officials Say Spam Emails Caused ASU to Block Access to Petition Site

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:33:07 -0500

Full article: Downtown Devil
Josselyn Berry
Unsolicited spam emails from petition website change.org forced Arizona State University to block access as well as outbound emails to the site, university officials said.

Arizona State University Blocks All Access to Change.org for All of It's Students

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:26:22 -0500

Full article: TheDailyShit.com
Eric Haywood
Last Week, a group of ASU students started the petition entitled "Arizona State University: Reduce the Costs of Education for Arizona State University Students" at the Change.org petition site. This petition requested signatures to support the reduction in the cost of education for ASU students. Arizona State University has now blocked all access to Change.org for all of it's over 50,000 students and over 5,000 faculty and employees.

ASU Blocks Petition Website on Campus Network

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:23:12 -0500

Full article: State Press
Kharli Mandeville
A Tumblr blog calling for Arizona State University to unblock the petition website Change.org began circulating the Internet, causing many students to become concerned that their First Amendment rights had been violated. ASU removed access to the site through any University server or email network. The petition was asking for signatures to support lowering the cost of tuition at ASU.

The Sinister Sons of SOPA

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:50:21 -0500

Full article: Wire
Lore Sjoberg
SOPA and PIPA may sound like adorable gnomes from a Finnish children's program in which puppets teach Scandinavian children the virtues of taciturnity, taxation and hot-tubbing, but they're actually even more sinister than that. They are American legislation that, if enacted, would give giant media corporations the ability to effectively erase any website they wanted for no real reason. I'd love to exaggerate that for comic effect, but no, that's pretty much the deal.

A New Front in the Net Neutrality Battle

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:55:28 -0500

Full article: APC Magazine
David Braue
The U.S. has introduced formal and binding Net Neutrality regulations, so where does Australia stand, and what's it all about anyway?

Rogers Violating Dederal Net Neutrality Rules, CRTC Says

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:43:19 -0500

Full article: CBC News
The CRTC has notified Rogers it has evidence the company is violating federal Net Neutrality rules by deliberately slowing down or "throttling" some of its internet traffic.

Lamar Smith, SOPA Author, Caught Red-Handed Infringing Copyright

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:19:29 -0500

Full article: International Business Times
Nadine Deninno
It turns out Rep. Lamar Smith, the author of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, has been caught red-handed infringing copyright with an image used on his personal website.

Users Choked Up over Internet Throttling

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:15:16 -0500

Full article: Montreal Gazette
Sarah Schmidt
Complaints against Internet providers deliberately slowing down online traffic are way up in Canada, according to the telecom regulator.

FCC's Genachowski Calls Net Neutrality Lawsuit 'Distracting'

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:19:25 -0500

Full article: Multichannel News
Todd Spangler
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said Verizon Communications' lawsuit challenging the agency's Network Neutrality regulations was "distracting" and could create uncertainty and confusion in the market.